Saturday, April 15, 2017

Who reads fake news?

The BBC website this morning has a fascinating article entitled The rise of left-wing, anti-Trump fake news. The observation that fake news is not just a right-wing phenomena doesn't surprise me, but the fact that it is appears to be largely the college educated on the left wing, and the high income earners on the right wing, that attend to fake news is unexpected.  One might have expected it would be the more uneducated who were the more susceptible.  Perhaps the "deplorables" have a better sense of reality after all  than the rest of us.